Volume 131, Issue 2

14 July 2023

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Fermi surface of CsTi₃Bi₅ probed by photoemission measurements with 78 eV photons at 7 K.

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Tunable Van Hove Singularity without Structural Instability in Kagome Metal ${CsTi}_{3} {Bi}_{5}$
Bo Liu et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026701 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Equivalence of Active and Passive Gravitational Mass Tested with Lunar Laser Ranging

Vishwa Vijay Singh, Jürgen Müller, Liliane Biskupek, Eva Hackmann, and Claus Lämmerzahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021401 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

High-precision measurements of the Moon’s orbit show that iron and aluminum feel and exert gravitational forces equally.

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Universal Velocity Statistics in Decaying Turbulence

Christian Küchler, Gregory P. Bewley, and Eberhard Bodenschatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 024001 (2023) - Published 10 July, 2023

Measurements conducted over an unprecedented span of conditions uncover universal behavior, but not the kind that theorists expected.

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Ubiquitous Superconducting Diode Effect in Superconductor Thin Films

Yasen Hou, Fabrizio Nichele, Hang Chi, Alessandro Lodesani, Yingying Wu, Markus F. Ritter, Daniel Z. Haxell, Margarita Davydova, Stefan Ilić, Ourania Glezakou-Elbert, Amith Varambally, F. Sebastian Bergeret, Akashdeep Kamra, Liang Fu, Patrick A. Lee, and Jagadeesh S. Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 027001 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

A superconducting strip allows more superconducting current to flow in one direction than in the other—achieving a stronger diode effect than previous devices.

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Linear Classification of Neural Manifolds with Correlated Variability

Albert J. Wakhloo, Tamara J. Sussman, and SueYeon Chung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 027301 (2023) - Published 12 July, 2023

A new theory allows researchers to determine the ability of arbitrarily complex neural networks to perform recognition tasks on data with intricate structure.

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Driving Alkali Rydberg Transitions with a Phase-Modulated Optical Lattice

R. Cardman and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 023201 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

Oscillating an optical lattice of Rydberg atoms at the right frequency causes the atoms to make electronic transitions, which can be useful for quantum processing techniques.

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Final Measurement of the ${}^{235}U$ Antineutrino Energy Spectrum with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR

M. Andriamirado et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021802 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

The most precise measurement of the antineutrino spectrum of Uranium-235 using the PROSPECT-I detector at the High Flux Isotope Reactor.

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Superconductivity beyond the Conventional Pauli Limit in High-Pressure ${CeSb}_{2}$

Oliver P. Squire, Stephen A. Hodgson, Jiasheng Chen, Vitaly Fedoseev, Christian K. de Podesta, Theodore I. Weinberger, Patricia L. Alireza, and F. Malte Grosche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026001 (2023) - Published 10 July, 2023

The upper critical field of CeSb $_{2}$ exceeds the conventional Pauli limit, an observation generally associated with spin-triplet superconductivity, especially in strongly correlated materials where the orbital-limit is high.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Exponential Shortcut to Measurement-Induced Entanglement Phase Transitions

Ali G. Moghaddam, Kim Pöyhönen, and Teemu Ojanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 020401 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

Extracting Quantum Many-Body Scarred Eigenstates with Matrix Product States

Shun-Yao Zhang, Dong Yuan, Thomas Iadecola, Shenglong Xu, and Dong-Ling Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 020402 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

Tensor Network Efficiently Representing Schmidt Decomposition of Quantum Many-Body States

Peng-Fei Zhou, Ying Lu, Jia-Hao Wang, and Shi-Ju Ran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 020403 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

Coherent Control of Trapped-Ion Qubits with Localized Electric Fields

R. Srinivas, C. M. Löschnauer, M. Malinowski, A. C. Hughes, R. Nourshargh, V. Negnevitsky, D. T. C. Allcock, S. A. King, C. Matthiesen, T. P. Harty, and C. J. Ballance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 020601 (2023) - Published 14 July, 2023

Ultimate Limits for Quickest Quantum Change-Point Detection

Marco Fanizza, Christoph Hirche, and John Calsamiglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 020602 (2023) - Published 14 July, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Strong Supernova 1987A Constraints on Bosons Decaying to Neutrinos

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Georg G. Raffelt, and Edoardo Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021001 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

GRB 221009A Gamma Rays from the Radiative Decay of Heavy Neutrinos?

Alexei Y. Smirnov and Andreas Trautner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021002 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

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Equivalence of Active and Passive Gravitational Mass Tested with Lunar Laser Ranging

Vishwa Vijay Singh, Jürgen Müller, Liliane Biskupek, Eva Hackmann, and Claus Lämmerzahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021401 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

High-precision measurements of the Moon’s orbit show that iron and aluminum feel and exert gravitational forces equally.

Particles and Fields

Energy Transport for Thick Holographic Branes

Constantin Bachas, Stefano Baiguera, Shira Chapman, Giuseppe Policastro, and Tal Schwartzman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021601 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

First Measurement of the Michel Parameter $ξ^{'}$ in the $τ^{-} \to μ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{μ} ν_{τ}$ Decay at Belle

D. Bodrov et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021801 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

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Final Measurement of the ${}^{235}U$ Antineutrino Energy Spectrum with the PROSPECT-I Detector at HFIR

M. Andriamirado et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021802 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

The most precise measurement of the antineutrino spectrum of Uranium-235 using the PROSPECT-I detector at the High Flux Isotope Reactor.

First Measurement of Hard Exclusive $π^{-} Δ^{+ +}$ Electroproduction Beam-Spin Asymmetries off the Proton

S. Diehl et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021901 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

Real-Time Nonperturbative Dynamics of Jet Production in Schwinger Model: Quantum Entanglement and Vacuum Modification

Adrien Florio, David Frenklakh, Kazuki Ikeda, Dmitri Kharzeev, Vladimir Korepin, Shuzhe Shi, and Kwangmin Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 021902 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Separating the Impact of Nuclear Skin and Nuclear Deformation in High-Energy Isobar Collisions

Jiangyong Jia, Giuliano Giacalone, and Chunjian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 022301 (2023) - Published 12 July, 2023

${}^{133}{In}$ : A Rosetta Stone for Decays of $r$ -Process Nuclei

Z. Y. Xu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 022501 (2023) - Published 14 July, 2023

Isomeric Excitation Energy for ${}^{99}{In}^{m}$ from Mass Spectrometry Reveals Constant Trend Next to Doubly Magic ${}^{100}{Sn}$

L. Nies, D. Atanasov, M. Athanasakis-Kaklamanakis, M. Au, K. Blaum, J. Dobaczewski, B. S. Hu, J. D. Holt, J. Karthein, I. Kulikov, Yu. A. Litvinov, D. Lunney, V. Manea, T. Miyagi, M. Mougeot, L. Schweikhard, A. Schwenk, K. Sieja, and F. Wienholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 022502 (2023) - Published 14 July, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Efficient Indirect Interatomic Coulombic Decay Induced by Photoelectron Impact Excitation in Large Pure Helium Nanodroplets

L. Ben Ltaief, K. Sishodia, S. Mandal, S. De, S. R. Krishnan, C. Medina, N. Pal, R. Richter, T. Fennel, and M. Mudrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 023001 (2023) - Published 12 July, 2023

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Driving Alkali Rydberg Transitions with a Phase-Modulated Optical Lattice

R. Cardman and G. Raithel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 023201 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

Oscillating an optical lattice of Rydberg atoms at the right frequency causes the atoms to make electronic transitions, which can be useful for quantum processing techniques.

Topological Microlaser with a Non-Hermitian Topological Bulk

Zhitong Li, Xi-Wang Luo, Dayang Lin, Abouzar Gharajeh, Jiyoung Moon, Junpeng Hou, Chuanwei Zhang, and Qing Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 023202 (2023) - Published 12 July, 2023

Cavity Light-Matter Entanglement through Quantum Fluctuations

Giacomo Passetti, Christian J. Eckhardt, Michael A. Sentef, and Dante M. Kennes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 023601 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Universal Velocity Statistics in Decaying Turbulence

Christian Küchler, Gregory P. Bewley, and Eberhard Bodenschatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 024001 (2023) - Published 10 July, 2023

Measurements conducted over an unprecedented span of conditions uncover universal behavior, but not the kind that theorists expected.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

High-Flux Neutron Generator Based on Laser-Driven Collisionless Shock Acceleration

Y. L. Yao, S. K. He, Z. Lei, T. Ye, Y. Xie, Z. G. Deng, B. Cui, W. Qi, L. Yang, S. P. Zhu, X. T. He, W. M. Zhou, and B. Qiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 025101 (2023) - Published 12 July, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Superconductivity beyond the Conventional Pauli Limit in High-Pressure ${CeSb}_{2}$

Oliver P. Squire, Stephen A. Hodgson, Jiasheng Chen, Vitaly Fedoseev, Christian K. de Podesta, Theodore I. Weinberger, Patricia L. Alireza, and F. Malte Grosche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026001 (2023) - Published 10 July, 2023

Breaking Rayleigh’s Law with Spatially Correlated Disorder to Control Phonon Transport

S. Thébaud, L. Lindsay, and T. Berlijn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026301 (2023) - Published 14 July, 2023

Kondo Lattice Model in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026501 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

Kondo Lattice Model of Magic-Angle Twisted-Bilayer Graphene: Hund’s Rule, Local-Moment Fluctuations, and Low-Energy Effective Theory

Haoyu Hu, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Alexei M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026502 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

Emergence of the Chern Supermetal and Pair-Density Wave through Higher-Order Van Hove Singularities in the Haldane-Hubbard Model

Pedro Castro, Daniel Shaffer, Yi-Ming Wu, and Luiz H. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026601 (2023) - Published 11 July, 2023

Tunable Van Hove Singularity without Structural Instability in Kagome Metal ${CsTi}_{3} {Bi}_{5}$

Bo Liu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026701 (2023) - Published 12 July, 2023

Optical Control of Slow Topological Electrons in Moiré Systems

Christopher Yang, Iliya Esin, Cyprian Lewandowski, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026901 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

Two-Dimensional Terahertz Spectroscopy of Nonlinear Phononics in the Topological Insulator ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

T. G. H. Blank, K. A. Grishunin, K. A. Zvezdin, N. T. Hai, J. C. Wu, S.-H. Su, J.-C. A. Huang, A. K. Zvezdin, and A. V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 026902 (2023) - Published 14 July, 2023

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Ubiquitous Superconducting Diode Effect in Superconductor Thin Films

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 027001 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

A superconducting strip allows more superconducting current to flow in one direction than in the other—achieving a stronger diode effect than previous devices.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Emergence of Hydrodynamic Spatial Long-Range Correlations in Nonequilibrium Many-Body Systems

Benjamin Doyon, Gabriele Perfetto, Tomohiro Sasamoto, and Takato Yoshimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 027101 (2023) - Published 14 July, 2023

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Linear Classification of Neural Manifolds with Correlated Variability

Albert J. Wakhloo, Tamara J. Sussman, and SueYeon Chung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 027301 (2023) - Published 12 July, 2023

A new theory allows researchers to determine the ability of arbitrarily complex neural networks to perform recognition tasks on data with intricate structure.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Tensor-Reduced Atomic Density Representations

James P. Darby, Dávid P. Kovács, Ilyes Batatia, Miguel A. Caro, Gus L. W. Hart, Christoph Ortner, and Gábor Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 028001 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023

Linear Response Theory of Evolved Metabolic Systems

Jumpei F. Yamagishi and Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 028401 (2023) - Published 13 July, 2023